William F. Horan Jr.'s Blog – September 2011 Archive (1)

Recent popes have declared that the “rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer”. This same criticism could be applied to catholic education: catholic schools and colleges are serving more the rich; and less the middle class and poor.

When my grandparents immigrated from Ireland in the early 1900s, the Catholic Church in the United States already had in place a parochial school system designed primarily for immigrants. However, these schools are now too…